French Online Marker Training

The Online Marker Training provides information on marker roles and responsibilities, features of assessment, differences between current internal assessments and external assessments in this trial. Subject-specific tasks are a key aspect of the online training and must be completed. It should take about 20 minutes and give you an understanding of what being a marker involves.

Course materials

Introduction

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QCAA resources

Information Statement for Schools

Supplementary materials

Sent out with Online Marker Training email.

Background learning and example 1

Background learning

For this training, we will be using the Supplementary materials from the 2017 External Assessment Trial for French, which contain a sample instrument. You will be asked to identify evidence to make judgments about a specific feature of responses.

There are three sections in the sample instrument.

Section 1 — Listening

Section 2 — Reading

Section 3 — Writing

We will now focus on Comprehension in Section 2.

Question

The question below relates to Texts 4, 5 and 6, which can be found on page 19 in the sample instrument.

Lachlan is introduced in Text 6. Two alternatives are identified in Texts 4 and 5. Which alternative would best suit Lachlan? Justify your answer using relevant information from both Texts 4 and 5.

There are two parts in this question. Firstly, students choose the most appropriate alternative for Lachlan, then they justify their choice with the relevant details.

Conclusion from texts

The tutoring job is the best choice.

Relevant details from texts

Lachlan wants to become a teacher

Lachlan is from an English-speaking country

The other job is not paid

Example

Consider this response. Scroll down for a judgment about this response.

Correct answer

Annotated response and explanation

The response has:

drawn a conclusion that is valid

used both texts to respond

used relevant details in their response.

Question 1

draws a conclusion justified by 3 relevant details.

draws a conclusion justified by 2 relevant details.

draws a conclusion justified by 1 relevant detail.

does not meet requirements above.

The question below relates to Texts 4, 5 and 6, which can be found on page 19 in the sample instrument.

Lachlan is introduced in Text 6. Two alternatives are identified in Texts 4 and 5. Which alternative would best suit Lachlan? Justify your answer using relevant information from both Texts 4 and 5.

There are two parts in this question. Firstly, students choose the most appropriate alternative for Lachlan, then they justify their choice with the relevant details.

Conclusion from texts

The tutoring job is the best choice.

Relevant details from texts

Lachlan wants to become a teacher

Lachlan is from an English-speaking country

The other job is not paid

Response

Consider the response above.

Click on the most appropriate option to complete the stem below.

The response:

Question 1 answer

Annotated response and explanation

The student draws a conclusion and justifies the response. While the conclusion is correct, the student does not justify using all the relevant details. In fact, there is only one piece of information that is relevant.

Question 2

draws a conclusion justified by 3 relevant details.

draws a conclusion justified by 2 relevant details.

draws a conclusion justified by 1 relevant detail.

does not meet requirements above.

The question below relates to Texts 4, 5 and 6, which can be found on page 19 in the sample instrument.

Lachlan is introduced in Text 6. Two alternatives are identified in Texts 4 and 5. Which alternative would best suit Lachlan? Justify your answer using relevant information from both Texts 4 and 5.

There are two parts in this question. Firstly, students choose the most appropriate alternative for Lachlan, then they justify their choice with the relevant details.

Conclusion from texts

The tutoring job is the best choice.

Relevant details from texts

Lachlan wants to become a teacher

Lachlan is from an English-speaking country

The other job is not paid

Response

Consider the response above.

Click on the most appropriate option to complete the stem below.

The response:

Question 2 answer

Annotated response and explanation

The student has identified the best alternative for Lachlan and justified this alternative using both Texts 4 and 5; however, the student failed to mention that Lachlan wants to become a teacher.

Background learning and example 2

Background learning

For this training, we will be using the Supplementary materials from the 2017 External Assessment Trial for French, which contain a sample instrument. You will be asked to identify evidence to make judgments about a specific feature of responses.

There are three sections in the sample instrument.

Section 1 — Listening

Section 2 — Reading

Section 3 — Writing

We will now focus on Conveying meaning in Section 3.

Task

The task below is taken from page 21 in the sample instrument.

Instructions

Respond to the task in approximately 300 words — this length is a guide only.

Allow approximately 55 minutes to complete this section.

Respond in French.

Context:

Your friend Martin has recently returned to France after being an exchange student at your school in Australia. He has sent you an email to invite you to come and stay with his family at Christmas.

Si tu peux venir, qu’est-ce que tu aimerais faire ici ? (If you can come, what would you like to do here?)

Audience:

Your friend Martin

Text type:

Personal email

Example

Consider this response. Scroll down for a judgment about this response.

Correct answer

Annotated response and explanation

Decisions about grading the quality of the responses would be made using the Knowing and using language features aspects of the marking guide and by judging the extent to which the writer’s ideas and purpose are conveyed.

Question 3

answers all 3 questions.

answers 2 questions.

answers 1 question.

does not respond to the questions.

The task below is taken from page 21 in the sample instrument.

Instructions

Respond to the task in approximately 300 words — this length is a guide only.

Allow approximately 55 minutes to complete this section.

Respond in French.

Context:

Your friend Martin has recently returned to France after being an exchange student at your school in Australia. He has sent you an email to invite you to come and stay with his family at Christmas.